BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- After a series of audits, a Tuskegee community health center has added "misappropriation of funds" to its list of allegations against Birmingham Health Care, according to the latest court filing.

Central Alabama Comprehensive Health (CACH) initially sued the Birmingham health center Feb. 6, 2012, for breach of contract and conversion in a case dating back several years when BHC was being paid to manage CACH.

In an amended complaint filed Thursday, CACH alleges: "BHC and its agents and employees misappropriated CACH's grant funds and other monies for their own use."

No other specifics of the alleged misappropriation or dollar amounts were included in the new complaint.

The lawsuit's origins go back to June 2011 when CACH ended a $225,000 per year management contract with BHC. At that time, the CACH board of directors called for the immediate return of records from BHC and companies owned by its one-time CEO Jonathan Dunning. Dunning served as CEO of both CACH and BHC for several years prior to 2009.

BHC, in response to the board's request, returned selected paper business records but were not in compliance with the request, according to CACH.

"After CACH initiated this lawsuit, BHC produced approximately 26 boxes of documents and several flash-memory drives containing electronically stored documents over the course of several months," the new complaint alleges. "However, many documents remain missing."

CACH says the records are essential to its financial viability and its ability to comply with federal regulations.

"In addition, the documents produced by BHC reveal that BHC and its agents and employees engaged in gross mismanagement of CACH, misappropriated CACH's funds, failed to fulfill the terms of the parties' agreement, and otherwise breached its duties owed to CACH," according to the amended complaint.

BHC, which has denied all allegations in the previous complaint, has 20 days to respond to the amended one. After that, the judge will set a trial date.

BHC and CACH are among 1,200 organizations nationwide with the "federally qualified health center" designation, allowing them to receive higher Medicaid reimbursements and giving them access to federal funds to serve the poor and homeless.